Thursday, May 23. 2013

Having a bit time I've decided to upgrade my mail services running very stable but being a bit too old. Debian squeeze is the oldstable now, so it has Postfix 2.7.1 and Dovecot 1.x by default. Despite wheezy was released shortly, having no time and expressive reason to move the complete server to it, a partial upgrade seemed meaningful to me. So I was going on with the debian backports repo for

BASH:

$ aptitude-t squeeze-backports postfix dovecot spamassassin spamc

The upgrade went smoothly except that the backports repo has dovecot 2.1 and it had some configure errors. Also note, that you might have to add some other relevant packages to upgrade, like dovecot-pgsql.